Tournament Format:

-The tournament admin (Gingy) has discretion to clarify, change, or make exceptions to these rules as needed.

-The tournament will follow a double elimination bracket with no grand finals reset, seeded by each player’s highest score in Slope Plus or an official release of Slope. Scores with only screenshot proof are also counted for this, as are set seed scores where the player was not already familiar with the seed, such as in tournament games or other matches.

-Matches will be best of 5 (first to 3), except for the grand finals which will be best of 7 (first to 4).

-Matches are to be played on Slope Plus.

-Opponents will play on the same seed for each game of the match. This seed should be randomly generated right before the game begins.

-No exploits, external cheat engines, or modified game versions may be used while playing.

-Players will organize with their assigned opponents, as per the bracket, to determine when and how to play their match. There are three types of matches available to players, as listed below.

Standard Matches:

-Matches are played with both participants streaming their screens and playing the same seed at the same time.

- A presiding match admin should be present to record or live stream both players’ perspectives. The final recording or VOD of this match should be submitted to the tournament admin.

-The seed played on for each game is to be randomly generated and assigned by the presiding match admin.

-If the match admin determines that a player lost a game due to something outside of their control (namely in-game glitches), then that game may not be counted and instead be replayed on a new seed.

Nonstandard Matches:

-If opponents are unable to schedule their match with a match admin, then they may instead play their match without one. They are still expected to follow the tournament format rules, however.

-Opponents should be as transparent and trustworthy to each other as possible. Namely, they should share screenshots of their death screens at the end of each game to confirm the game winner.

-Games may be replayed on a new seed for the same reasons as in standard matches if both players agree to do so. However, as there is no adjudicating third party present, players are not obligated to agree to a replay.

-These matches will only be reported to the bracket if the result is uncontroversial and agreed upon by both players.

-For detailed stats collected at the end of the tournament (such as average score of each participant) these matches will not be counted.

Asynchronous Matches:

-If opponents are unable to schedule their match with each other, then they may instead play asynchronously by meeting with a match admin at separate times.

-Player one (the first player to meet with a match admin) will stream their games to the match admin and only the match admin. Player one will play five games, with each game being played on a randomly generated seed assigned by the match admin.

-The seeds played on by player one and their final scores should be kept confidential between match admins and player one.

-Player two will stream five games to a match admin afterwards. The seeds assigned for each game will be the same seeds assigned to player one.

-Recordings of the match should be submitted to the tournament admin who will reveal each player’s scores on each seed.

-As with usual matches, the winner of the most games is declared the winner of the match. In the event that a tied game leaves an indeterminate result, then the winner will instead be decided by average score in the match.

-There will be no option to replay games in asynchronous matches.